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The Ceará Chronicle
1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
Richard damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Sebastián Gularte out for 125 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ceará will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Sanchez says Ceará went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
In brief
- Squad Words exchanged at Ceará
- Squad A row about effort at Ceará
- The dugout The manager makes Petros a promise
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Vinicius Zanocelo